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Newlove ( First Paragraphs , St. Martin's, 1992) has written an enthusiastic discussion of the art of descriptive writing. Using a variety of authors and genres, he focuses on the ``moral force'' of a writer's voice. He is unafraid to describe his likes and dislikes and does not hesitate to rewrite authors as he explains methods and styles. It is a pleasure to read his appreciations of Whitman, Thomas Wolfe, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare. Unconcerned with theory and meta-criticism, Newlove is interested in the human aspect of the author's writing and how it affects the reader's emotions and imagination. He thinks that the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary is one of the keys to effective writing. The other is the ability of an author to try to understand his or her own feelings and ideas. A fine book for beginning writers, it contains many eloquent examples of Newlove's attempts to understand his own life.-- Gene Shaw, NYPL